Don’t let that Oxford education and British citizenship fool you: 125 years ago today, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
He went on to become one of the defining voices of the modernist movement with poems like The Waste Land and plays like Murder in the Cathedral—oh, and that children’s book that eventually became the musical Cats.
To celebrate, the Poetry Foundation has posted “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as it originally appeared in their magazine Poetry in 1915.
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